The Patrick Madrid Show: January 05, 2026 - Hour 3
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Patrick answers questions from listeners about everything from the order of sacraments and returning to confession, to praying for healing and dealing with grief after loss. Conversations shift quickly: heartfelt moments with callers like Karen, who faces Alzheimer’s with faith, sit alongside advice for Jeff, who wonders about finding love again after his wife’s passing. Wisdom, warmth, and surprises fill the air as Patrick responds with empathy, candor, and genuine care.
- Chandler - What is the typical sequence of the initiation sacraments? Can non-Catholics receive the sacrament of confession or communion? (00:29)
- Karen - I have Alzheimer’s. How should I pray about this? (07:31)
- Jeff - Can you recommend a good book for praying for a good wife? (17:51)
- Mitsi (email) - Does Psalm 2:8 condone colonialism? (34:35)
- Marcus (email) – What is the #1 most important difference between Catholics and other Christians? (37:38)
- Maria - Is it ok for someone to fast from the Eucharist? (40:07)
- Shella - The priest at my Church omits 'of me' during the consecration'. Is that okay? (45:27)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | How much time we got left? |
| 0:05.0 | Tons. |
| 0:09.0 | Compelling insights, unpredictable conversations, encouragement for your day. |
| 0:14.8 | It's the Patrick Madrid Show on Relevant Radio. |
| 0:18.8 | And we're back, and the number is the same 88-914-9-9-49. |
| 0:23.9 | We'll get to your phone calls here in just a moment. |
| 0:26.4 | First, though, I'd like to kind of recap and finish answering a question that I ran out of time on just before the break. |
| 0:33.4 | This is from Chandler. |
| 0:35.0 | So I'll just reread the quick question, he says. |
| 0:41.2 | What is the typical sequence of the initiation of the sacraments? |
| 0:47.6 | I always thought it was baptism, confession, confirmation, and then communion. |
| 0:52.2 | Now, no, I'll come back to that. |
| 1:11.1 | Or confirmation and communion together at the same time. However, I have a friend going through OCIA, he says, who told me that the lady at OCIA told him they will receive First Communion first and then take another class and after that received the sacrament of confirmation. That doesn't make sense to me. |
| 1:15.2 | I thought you have to be Catholic in order to receive the sacrament such as confession and communion. Can non-Catholics receive the sacrament of confession communion? Okay, so there's a bit |
| 1:20.3 | here that we need to sort through. I'll recap what I said before the break. So for cradle Catholics, lifelong Catholics, who are baptized, |
| 1:30.3 | typically about two, three weeks of age, you receive baptism first. It's the foundation for all the |
| 1:35.8 | other sacraments, without which you can't receive any of the other sacraments validly or effectively. |
| 1:41.0 | So baptism first. So in the Latin right of the Catholic Church, and yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, I know. |
| 1:48.0 | In the Byzantine right, for example, children are baptized and chrismated and communed at baptism. |
| 1:54.0 | When they're baptizes infants, that's when the other sacraments take place. |
| 1:57.1 | But we're not talking per se about the Byzantine right or some of the other Eastern |
| 2:01.0 | rights. We're talking to hear about the vast majority of Catholic folk in this country who are in |
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